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The result was Delete. While the subject-specific notability guidelines do not trump the general notability guideline, they do provide a convenient means of treating a subject when sources are expected to exist but are not currently available to the discussion. They do not provide an additional hurdle that the article has to pass just because the subject of the article matches the subject of the guideline. So from that standpoint, the first keep argument in this discussion had the chance to outweigh all of the delete arguments, as the subject is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. However upon inspection of the sources provided in the article, of which there were three, two are extraordinarily trivial mentions (one just lists him as a member of a team along with all of the other members, the other just lists him as one of three other players to leave a team after the entire article specifically discusses two other prominent players -- both offer no critical commentary), and one just says he was picked up by a team as its newest rookie, and has a brief quote from the subject of his opinion on it. The latter is boderline, but hardly meets the requirements of WP:N, in that the depth of coverage is not substantial. Therefore we must fall back upon the subject-specific notability guideline, which the delete arguments clearly identify as this article does not pass. My decision therefore is delete. Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 21:10, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]